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So thank you. We have tomorrow is, as most of
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you know, September the 11th, it is the anniversary of the tragic
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attacks on America at the World Trade Centers by terrorist.
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And 25 years is 1/4 of a century.
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That's a long time and there's a lot of things that we think
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about when it comes to September 11th, but here's something I
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wanted to share with you that was really, really crazy. 1/4 of
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a century has passed. It's a terrible day of September
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11th, 2001. Everybody remembers where they
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were at. I remember where I was at.
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I'm pretty sure you, most of you do as well.
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An entire generation of Americans has now come of age
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with no living memory of that fateful day.
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Think about that for a second. If you don't feel old, you will
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after I read this. My oldest son is 30 years old.
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He was five years old. My youngest son was literally 2
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when the tax happened on our country on September 11th.
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They are now adults and my oldest son says he kind of
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remembers his mom being sad and and stuff but he doesn't
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remember much about it. The time is passing.
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The passing of time must never dim what will forever burn
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bright in the conscious of our nation.
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Amid the ashes of Ground Zero, we made a solemn vow to never
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forget what happened on that horrible day.
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A vow that must be renewed in every American Heart, taught in
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every classroom, and honored in every community across our land.
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That is so true 25 years ago beneath a clear September sky
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and the peace of our nation was shattered when radical Islamic
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terrorists hijacked 4 commercial jet planes and converted them
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into weapons of mass murder. At 8:46 AM, American Airlines
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Flight 11 was deliberately flown into the North Tower of the
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World Trade Center in New York City.
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Shadowing closely behind was United Airlines Flight 175 and
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with a span within a span of 17 minutes, the South Tower was
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struck. At that moment became clear that
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our nation was under attack. Before the morning had passed,
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both soaring towers, the premier symbol of America's economic
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strength and prosperity to the world, had collapsed into the
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city below, claiming thousands of innocent lives and leaving
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behind unfathomable destruction. The time was 10/20, 8:00 AM.
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Just 34 minutes later, at the edge of the nation's capital in
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Arlington, VA, American Airlines Flight 77 was flown into the
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Pentagon, the fortress of America's military might,
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striking down members of our armed forces and dedicated civil
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servants. Amid the smoke and flames,
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survivors turned back into the burning building to carry
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survivors to safety. But the horror of that morning
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was not over. Aboard United Airlines Flight
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93, passengers learn through frantic cell phone calls of the
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terror already unfolding in New York and in Virginia.
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Knowing that their plane was being used as a weapon, they
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resolved to fight back. Among them was Todd Beamer, A
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devoted husband, father and man of deep faith who calmly led his
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fellow passenger passengers in resuscitation of the Lord's
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Prayer before speaking his last immortal words.
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Are you ready? OK, let's roll.
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With those immortal words, the heroes of Flight 93 mounted A
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daring assault on the hijackers and forced the aircraft down
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into a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Just 20 minutes flying time from their intended target of our
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nation's capital and laying down their lives, those 40 patriots
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transformed a quiet field into a hollow ground, leaving behind an
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everlasting testament to unbreakable will of the American
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people. On Tuesday, September 11th,
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2001, two 1977 innocent souls perished in the most despicable
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act of terror in the history of our country.
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Yet amid the wreckage and carriage of that day, the world
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witnessed the courage, valor, patriotism of American members
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of the New York City Police Department, Fire Department, The
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City of New York, Port Authority, the City of New York
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and New Jersey worked around the clock beside almost 100
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emergency and 1st Responder agency to save those still
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trapped in the rubble and to ensure safe evacuation of untold
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thousands of New York City residents.
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Rescue workers, medical personnel and thousands of
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volunteers answered the call, risking their own lives and
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giving everything they had to help fellow Americans and the
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hours and days that followed. September 11th, 2001, our nation
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came together with a unity and purpose that is distinctively
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American. We mounted as one people, we
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prayed as one nation, and we resolved with iron will that
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those who attacked us would feel the full measure of American
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strength. The terrorists sought to break
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our spirit. They failed.
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They sought to divide us. They could not.
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They sought to make us afraid. Instead, they awakened the
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mightiest force for justice the world has ever known.
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In the days, months and years that follow, thousands of
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American patriots step forward to wear the uniform of the
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United States Armed Forces. Those included Pat Tillman who
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was an NFL football player and had $1,000,000 contract.
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They left behind their families, communities, crossed oceans and
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carry the fight to our enemy in distant battlefield so the
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horrors of that September morning would never again reach
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our shores. For nearly 25 years, 1/4 of a
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century, an entire generation of warriors served, fought and
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sacrificed defense of our freedom.
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Many gave their last full measure of devotion and
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countless others returned home bearing the scene in unseen
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wounds of war. Our nation's owe each and every
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one of them a debt that can never be repaid.
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That September morning change our country forever.
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Teach us that oceans alone could no longer shield our homeland
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from the forces of evil, that liberty must always be guarded
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by freedom and vigilant people, and the strength of the Republic
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will always prevail. There is no higher duty than the
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President of the United States to ensure that the safety and
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well-being of the American people in the form the very
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first administration our nation needs to defend for shores.
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For millions of Americans, the memories of September 11th, 2001
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remain as a vivid today as they were 25 years ago.
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We will never forget 9/11 or the 2977 people whose lives were
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lost, taken from us. We will cherish their memory and
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will forever hold their families in the enduring embrace of our
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nation. This was something that I read
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online and it was phenomenal. It was just absolutely mind
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blowing when I saw it and I thought it would be justified to
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read it. Today, on the eve of September
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11th, 25 year anniversary, I was sitting in the living room.
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My brother, ironically, who was supposed to fly back on that
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Tuesday, came back a day early, otherwise he would have never
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made it back home. And I remember him screaming to
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me, Michael, are you watching this?
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We're under attack. It was crazy, absolutely crazy.
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I remember the pictures that were sent to me of the military
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base that I was stationed at in Germany with just flowers and
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roses all around the gate, covering the gate that was
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closed with two tanks in the front of it protecting the gate.
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It was the first time I think I ever saw a really threat con
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alpha, I mean, or, or tricom Delta, whatever it was, you
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know, AB tried Delta, whatever. I've never seen it like that
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secure. That post used to be an open
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post. I mean, anybody could come on
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it. So our times have changed and
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like our our times and our nation has changed.
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Our fight has changed and what we stand for seems to be ever
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changing. Or is it because what we stand
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for is freedom, Freedom to speak what we want to speak, freedom
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to say what we want to say, freedom to speak against our
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governments. You see, that's a luxury that a
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lot of us don't have or a lot of people in the country, I should
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say, or the world don't have, is a speak against our government
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without some kind of consequence, We'll say.
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I read an article just the other day about a very famous
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podcaster in Egypt who was actually charged with drug
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trafficking and was sentenced to death by hanging because that's
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how they carry out their death sentence.
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Could you imagine that living in a country with something?
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So I don't want to say minor, but something like that would
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would warrant the death penalty by hanging.
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Wow, that's crazy. I mean, there's countries like
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Iran, there's countries like Russia that you can't speak out
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against the government. Imagine Cuba right now with the
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communist communism that's going on there.
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I mean, they can't, they're not allowed to, to, to do anything.
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I mean, half of them, you know, just aren't allowed to say
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anything. You know, internet's almost non
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existent. Think about our freedom
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sometimes with all this bickering back and forth,
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sometimes we have to think about our freedom.
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Wanted to touch base on that. I know that you know, September
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11th, like I said, the eve of it is right around the corner.
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Here's a huge question for you when you're thinking about
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tomorrow. A lot of veterans that like
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myself and like H Train and and a lot of others who were right
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there. September 11th, we were, we were
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sent to go fight our battles shortly thereafter, right?
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Iraq, Afghanistan, it was, it was, it was hard.
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It was hard. So 25 years later, you as a
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veteran, what do you still need to forgive?
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Need to forgive them yourself, forgive your unit, the
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government or even people who never really understood your
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service. What is it that we need to
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forgive? And that's kind of the touch
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base that I wanted to do on the show today was asking for
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forgiveness, right? We're so quick to forgive
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people, but what about those who we've wronged?
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And how do we how do we ask for them to forgive us?
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Interesting. So anyways, as I was saying,
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this show again, is going to be a little bit based on the 9/11
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anniversary that is tomorrow. We all know that it's for us
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that we're that do remember 911. It's still very, very, I mean,
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it doesn't seem like it's been 25 years ago.
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It, it almost seems like it was a bad dream that we are kind of
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reminded of. It's it's very difficult for a
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lot of people. It really is.
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I mean, those people who, you know, saw our nation in trouble
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and turmoil and said, we're going to put on a uniform and
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we're going to fight for that and we're going to write the
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wrong that was done to our country.
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I, I, I know this sounds horrible, but I wish that I
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could go back to 25 years ago when not just us as a nation
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came together, but as a world came together, as a world that
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saw this as pure evil. Today it's kind of looked on us
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like, well, it happened, right? I mean, with all the politics
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and everything that's going on in the world today, right?
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You got Russia and Ukraine, you've got Iran and us, you've
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got, you know, things going on down in Africa right now.
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It's just, it is so crazy to sit there and think about how we
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kind of dismiss being one nation under God, indivisible, with
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liberty and justice for all. Liberty and justice for all.
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Those are keywords to our nation and we kind of look and take
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them for granted. That day on September 11th,
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there were no Jews, there were no Gentiles, there were no
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Muslims, there were no Catholics.
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They were Americans. The very first person killed or
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firefighter killed, I should say, was I just read an article
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about this was a chaplain who a lady had jumped from the towers
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and fell on a firefighter and they both had died.
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And he was there giving them their last rites when the tower
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collapsed. And the firefighters pulled him
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out and laid his body at the church that's there that
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survived at Ground Zero. That church, by the way, is
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still there. It's, it's phenomenal.
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It's a little bitty church, but it's absolutely phenomenal.
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So again, on the heels of the anniversary of September 11th,
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take a step back, look around, and remember where you were on
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that day if you're old enough to remember.
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And remember how close we all became.
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You asked for forgiveness. You asked for people to forgive
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you as well as you forgave others.
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It was almost like our world was ending as you know it, and we
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all just wanted to be happy and let people know.
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People reaching out to people saying they love them, that they
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haven't talked to him in a long time.
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So I, I, I, I I'm going to not put that on the back burner, but
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I'm going to talk more about that.
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Yeah, that's kind of crazy. There's a report out today
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noting that 2.4% of new hires at major contractors were veterans.
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2.4% of major contracts are like Bose, Allen, Boeing, Lockheed
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Martin, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. 2.4% of new hires and
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major contracts for veterans, which is below the federal
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target. So if you're a company out
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there, huge company like Bose, Boeing, Booz Allen, BAE Systems
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or anything like that, you guys not hiring veterans?
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I just don't, I, I just don't get that.
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Why are they not hiring veterans?
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Crazy, right? Crazy.
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Hey, the world of conscious positive thinking.
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Amazing. By the way, if you're not
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watching that show on military broadcast radio, go watch it.
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Amazing show. Listen, I watch it just to get
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my head clear. Seriously, the VA, here's a good
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one. the VA says it's claims backlog is below 200,000.
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Little crickets here. the VA saying that their backlog is
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below 200,000. It should be 0.
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Like why do you have backlogs? First time in a couple years?
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Is the VA getting any better at taking care of his veterans?
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I don't know. It's, I think it's a hit or
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miss. I really do.
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It's kind of like any hospital. I think it's a hit or miss.
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Like you can go to Salisbury, VA in North Carolina, phenomenal
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hospital. The staff there is phenomenal.
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They love what they do. They love their veterans.
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I mean, they are great. Then you can go to a place like
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Birmingham, AL where they could care less about the veterans.
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And I'm saying it right here live where they they are
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teaching hospitals. So the doctors care about the
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veterans, but the staff, they're leading up to it challenging,
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very challenging, very challenging.
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That's just my opinion though. That is not the opinion of
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military or gas radio or anybody else.
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That is just simply my opinion. So as most of you guys know,
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I've been a little bit down and under the weather.
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Somebody just wrote me and said, hey, how's it going?
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It's going good. Everything's going good.
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And this medicine I'm on, boy, oh boy.
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I don't know whether I'm coming or going, but most of the time I
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am coming. So I wanted to leave you guys
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with something before we take our quick break and it's pretty
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cool. This is from Scotty Frazier, who
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by the way, is phenomenal. And if it is something he posted
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on his website today and it says congratulations, you made it to
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a new sunrise, The easiest thing to do is lay down and not get
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up. It takes real courage and
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strength to live. And you've proven that.
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And you've proven that you got that because you read it through
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another sunrise. I know a new new sunrise means
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more struggles with your PTSD or more struggles with your just
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life in general. But take heart this you have
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100% rating of making it through the hard day.
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The new song that he has out is called Unbroken.
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We may broke breakdown, but we are not broken.
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If you guys have not heard him, he's phenomenal.
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Phenomenal singer, phenomenal guy.
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He is a good supporter of military broadcast radio, and I
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think you guys would. Seriously, you guys would
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seriously like him? So anyways, without further ado,
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I'm going to take a quick break, grab me some water and we'll be
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right back. And we're back with Veterans
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Talk on military broadcast radio with yours truly, DJ Manny Mike.
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And I wanted to say thank you to the e-mail that I just got said,
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hey, listen, 9/11 has been very hard for me.
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I was already in the military for five years.
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He asked, what? I withhold his name.
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So I'm going to withhold his name.
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I was in the Army for five years before 911 hit.
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I was already a captain. We got called up to Afghanistan
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once. I just lost the e-mail.
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Oh, here it is. Guy called to prepare for
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deployment to Afghanistan. We were not sure what we were
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getting into, what we were even doing.
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All we knew there was our country needed us.
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A lot of us were angry of what happened in 911.
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But when this, when the dust settled, we got to Afghanistan
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and everything was said and done, we realized that this was
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a bigger monster than we had ever thought of.
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Asking myself years later, as a retired service member, 100%
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permanent in total, what do I ask for forgiveness?
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I ask for forgiveness for the long days, long hours away from
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family, for the time missed. I asked for understanding, for
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the service that I gave to my country and to my nation.
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I asked for forgiveness for those who don't understand what
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it meant to me and many of my soldiers on 9/11.
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Excuse me? That's pretty powerful if you,
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if you think about that as a veteran, a lot of people don't
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understand, right? They don't understand why you're
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going to combat, why you're going to war.
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And 911 was very uncertain, right?
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We, we got sucker punched. I mean, Toby Keith's song was
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probably one of the best songs written.
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And when he says in the song lyrics, he says, you know,
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getting a sucker punch. And then once we could see
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clearly through our big black eye, we lit up your world like
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the 4th of July. I forgot to add a sponsor.
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Sir. Sir.
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Cool. They sent me this cool little
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thing right here. It's called Circle.
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And it's got like a little filter in here.
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And it's got different flavors you can put in there.
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It's pretty cool. So yeah, that was a that was a
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huge, huge thing was, you know, we didn't know what we were
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expecting. And, and I shared my story with
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some of you and I'll share it again.
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We, the first Infantry Division, as you see behind me, I was with
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the First Infantry Division. We had just came back from a
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huge long deployment. I mean for the last, we were
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forward deployed in Germany. And for, for most of our
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deployments, we were peacekeeping, We were doing
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peacekeeping. We're peacekeeping in, in
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Kosovo, in Bosnia, Macedonia. I mean that's what we wore
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peacekeepers. And then we got home from
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Kosovo. We got sent to Iraq.
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I remember having that peacekeeping mentality where I
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wanted to just, you know, throw candy at kids and, you know,
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everybody's going to wave and they're happy to have us here.
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You know, the hard stuff was done by the 3rd Infantry
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Division in the 101st and the 82nd and the 24th and all these
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other divisions that went before us.
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And we got there in 2004. Well, I got there 2004, February
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14th of 2004. And I had no idea, no idea that
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these people were not the same. It wasn't a peacekeeper mission,
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but yet that's what we were used to.
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So now it's a different, different beast that we're
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hunting, a different thing that we're hunting, a different
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visual idea that we were hunting.
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So somebody said they could barely hear the stream.
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I don't, I don't know why. Maybe that's something with
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Stream Yard. So put my head I'll put my
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little handy dandy headset on see if I can hear myself and mic
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check. Yeah, I can hear myself.
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Can you guys Claudia, can you hear me now?
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I got H trained in the studio and he's he's not giving me any
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any voice or anything like that. If but he I see it is not it's
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not really doing much, is it? How about now mic check.
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Nope, still nothing. That is crazy.
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How about now mic check 1212? Is that better?
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A little bit better, right man, I could I'm like going deaf in
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my ears right now. So I hope it's better to y'all.
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How about now mic check mic check.
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Nobody's giving me any feedback. So I guess we're we're OK, Are
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we OK? Are we good?
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We good? We're not good whatever.
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All right. So, but as I was saying it, it
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is, it is pretty important that people understand that it was a
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different, different thing, way of life before September 11th
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and after September 11th. It was definitely a difficult
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thing. Claudia H trains in the studio,
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he said, he said you need to turn up your volume or turn up
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your hearing aids. I'm just joking, Claudia.
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I love you, girl. I'm just messing with you.
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So 911 was again different before 911, military different
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after 911. That's why we have post 911
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things and, you know, pre 9/11, right?
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So for a long time, our mission as soldiers, as the military was
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for peacekeeping. So I, I, I think it was really,
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I, I think it is really important that people
30:02
understand, especially the younger generation of what we
30:05
had. And it's, it's, it's sad that we
30:08
have The thing is going on today, like the, the protests
30:13
and so on and so forth, that these young men and women that
30:18
are protesting don't understand how this country came together
30:24
25 years ago on that horrible day.
30:27
And there's still people asking for forgiveness.
30:29
Listen, I have a good friend of mine that's from New York.
30:31
He is a phenomenal individual. He's done very well for himself.
30:35
He was a New York Police officer during 9/11, and he still feels
30:42
resentment that he wasn't there and wasn't one.
30:46
Right. That was on Ground Zero.
30:48
There's a lot of people that have asked for forgiveness for
30:55
not being there and not being able to take part of what
30:58
happened or be a part. Listen, I've been to Ground
31:02
Zero. I've listened to those
31:03
recordings. They're online.
31:05
Listen, if if you are having a bad day, go online and listen to
31:09
some of those recordings. It is, it is very humbling.
31:12
It's very sad. You will not be able to have a
31:15
dry eye. You know, the one recording that
31:18
I heard today that is pretty powerful is a lady.
31:23
She's calling her loved ones and she's saying, hey, just want to
31:26
let you know there's a situation on the plane.
31:27
Don't worry, I'm not worried. Just want to let you know that
31:32
you know, there's a situation on the plane.
31:33
It was one of the planes that, that actually hit the tower, I
31:35
think. And you know, there's, if you
31:38
get a chance to go to Ground Zero, there is a, a little
31:41
memorial that was there. And they had some of the
31:44
teletypes of the operators that were taking the, the calls
31:48
because there's so many 911 calls coming in that it was just
31:51
absolutely bombarding the, the, the, the, the wireless carriers,
31:56
right. So there was one lady that I
32:00
wrote. It was a teletype and it says, I
32:01
don't know who you are, but I connected your wife to you so
32:10
that she can tell you she loves you.
32:12
I don't know, she made it. Think about all those operators
32:15
during that that time. I mean, there are so many people
32:19
that it's just, it's it's powerful.
32:23
So listen, I don't mean I don't like to put my personal business
32:28
out there, but I will tell you this that I asked for
32:33
forgiveness 6 1/2 years ago. Seven years ago, I made probably
32:39
the biggest mistake in my life. I want to say the biggest
32:43
mistake in my life, but I made a huge mistake and I hurt somebody
32:45
dearly. And I asked for them recently to
32:48
forgive me for that. And they shared something with
32:51
me and they said you're better than that.
32:56
We all, they asked me why it took so long to ask for
33:00
forgiveness or apologize and I said because I guess I denied
33:04
myself that because I knew I was wrong.
33:08
But let me tell you something. The weight lifted off my
33:10
shoulders when you ask for that forgiveness is so powerful and
33:17
so, so refreshing, if you will, right?
33:23
Here's something we all learn. Mistakes are made and we learn
33:26
from our mistakes and we move on, right?
33:28
So if you make a mistake, whether it's, I don't know,
33:33
something at work or make a mistake with cooking and cooking
33:37
comes out crazy or whatever, we learn from those mistakes when
33:40
we move on, right? Even the worst people learn from
33:43
their mistakes sometimes when you learn from that mistake,
33:45
right, there was a lesson learned and you move on from it
33:47
and you put in the past and that's it.
33:49
And you ask for that forgiveness and you move on.
33:52
There are things that I'm still going to do in the future.
33:54
They're going to be mistakes and I'm going to ask for forgiveness
33:58
to not only my God, but to the people that I may make those
34:01
mistakes to. And I will tell you here that on
34:06
this 25th anniversary, I think it is only fitting to ask for
34:09
forgiveness because it's so easy for us to forgive.
34:13
But to ask for the forgiveness is probably the hardest thing we
34:16
ever do, right? So asking for forgiveness for
34:22
your, your, your siblings, for your mom and dad, your aunts,
34:25
your uncles, family members, friends, people you work with,
34:28
coworkers, you know. And it's not about asking for
34:31
forgiveness and saying, hey, you know, I want you to forgive me
34:34
for drinking your coffee or eating your food that was in the
34:36
refrigerator and then doing it again.
34:38
I'm talking about honest, good, wholesome forgiveness and moving
34:42
on and learning from that mistake and moving on.
34:44
At first of all, it's never too late to ask for forgiveness and
34:49
it's never too late to not do it again and to learn from that
34:56
mistake. I think that's really important.
34:59
We all make mistakes. We all fall short and and
35:04
sometimes we got to pick ourselves up and dust us off
35:06
when we fall. You know, think about when
35:09
you're a kid. I, I know one incident when I
35:11
was a kid, I have jumping a ramp and I've done it a million
35:14
times, a little bitty ramp and I was jumping up on my bike and
35:17
lady came out. She was a nurse that lived next
35:19
door to us and she Lois and she said, Michael, be careful.
35:22
You're going to hurt yourself. And I said, I'm so careful.
35:24
I can do this with no hands. I jumped a rant with no hands
35:29
went over the handlebars skin both my knees.
35:31
She came out peroxide on there bandaging me up and guess what?
35:35
I never did that again. So I mean bonehead things like
35:38
that that we do. And I'll even take it a step
35:41
further. Even if you hurt somebody, ask
35:44
for forgiveness. I'm sure they'll I'm sure that
35:50
they have already forgiven you, but ask for forgiveness.
35:55
So I, I forgive a lot of people, absolutely forgive a lot of
35:58
people that have done me wrong. I think one of the greatest
36:05
things though, is when I asked for forgiveness from this
36:09
individual and they said don't beat yourself.
36:12
Don't beat yourself up over it. You deserve better than that.
36:16
And I thought about it. I thought, man, that person's
36:20
way better than me. I always thought they were way
36:24
better than me, but that was like confirming it.
36:28
So that was pretty powerful, pretty powerful lessons learned.
36:31
And you know, we learned to move on from them.
36:34
And that's part of I guess healing.
36:37
You know, September 11th I think taught us all that.
36:42
September 11th when it happened was our healing moment.
36:46
It was a one time that I think every single person, not just in
36:49
America, but the whole entire world said, hey, this is it.
36:54
This is a wake up call because you never know when that
36:59
somebody will be gone and you won't have the opportunity to
37:03
ask for that forgiveness. Something to think about.
37:09
Pretty powerful, pretty powerful.
37:13
Listen, if you're just now joining us for the first time,
37:16
Military broadcast radio has a plethora of shows.
37:19
I'm just one of them. And I know that a lot of people
37:21
come on here and watch the veterans talk.
37:23
And, you know, I talked to a lot of people.
37:25
They say, yeah, we'll watch your show.
37:27
And if my show is not your cup of tea, I'm fine with that.
37:31
This is my healing. This is my healing that I do
37:34
through this show. I look forward to the show every
37:37
single week because an opportunity to talk to you about
37:40
the things that I've done in my life wrong, right or
37:44
indifferent. And there's there's a song that
37:49
I'm going to play for you, a video I'm going to show you
37:52
later on. This is a gentleman that I
37:53
followed on Instagram. He is an actual Barber in
37:58
California and he's phenomenal. I've chatted with him online.
38:01
He is absolutely an inspiration for people.
38:05
And he would he would go out in the community and give haircuts
38:09
to the homeless because he was there.
38:11
He had been there at one time. Now he's very successful, built
38:16
his his business. He became a Barber to the stars
38:20
right in California. And now he gives back to this
38:22
community where he came from. And that's pretty important.
38:26
I think that the song that he was asked to be in and in the
38:31
songs kind of circled around him is really important.
38:34
And the words more importantly, are important.
38:37
That's a lot of important importance in there, but I think
38:40
that it is powerful enough to share with you to get you
38:44
thinking of the upcoming anniversary or the anniversary,
38:47
I should say, of 911, which is tomorrow and it truly is 25
38:53
years again. I can't even think about it.
38:56
If you are 30 years old now, 30 is already like right up there.
39:02
If you're 30 years old, you were five years old when 911
39:04
happened. If you were 35, you were 10.
39:07
If you were 40 years old when 911 happened, you were 15 years
39:13
old. Think about that for a second.
39:20
If you were like me and you're in your 50s, you were in your
39:24
20s. I was actually in my 30s, but
39:26
that's crazy. 25 years ago and we still remember it.
39:32
Listen, we're going to take a quick break.
39:33
When we come back we will talk more on the 9/11 and I'm going
39:39
to share some stuff with you. I'm looking for a song right now
39:42
and I'm going to put my glasses on because I wanted to play this
39:44
song. I saw it online, that H Train
39:46
had it online. It was pretty cool and now I
39:48
can't find it. There it is right there.
39:49
You ready? And this is a pretty cool song.
44:52
And we're back with yours truly. Magic on Veterans Talk, military
44:56
broadcast radio. I like the way it kind of like
44:58
just doesn't even fade or anything anymore.
45:00
Just cuts back to me. Here I am.
45:02
It's like this cool video and then all of a sudden my big head
45:04
in here. So before we took to the break,
45:07
we were talking about forgiveness.
45:09
And I want you all to know somebody had wrote me and, and I
45:13
want to read you what they wrote me.
45:14
They said asking for forgiveness is a surrender.
45:17
It's courage. In the military, we're taught
45:19
accountability. Own your position, own your
45:22
equipment, own your decisions. That same principle can apply to
45:26
our relationships. Sometimes one of the hardest
45:29
forms of accountability is looking somebody in the eye and
45:32
saying I was wrong, I hurt you, I'm sorry.
45:35
I'm not asking you to forget it or pretend that it didn't
45:38
happen. I'm asking you to forgive me.
45:41
And there's another important part too.
45:43
They don't owe you forgiveness on your timetable.
45:47
So when you ask them for forgiveness, don't expect them
45:49
to turn around and say I forgive you.
45:54
Don't. I mean don't.
45:55
Don't expect that Ask sincerely means giving up control of the
46:00
answer. You're apologizing because
46:03
taking responsibility is the right thing to do, not because
46:05
you're guaranteed reconciliation from a Christian perspective,
46:13
right? Humility, repentance, grace,
46:15
It's all in Matthew 523 and 24. As a veteran, we understand
46:21
courage, but sometimes courage isn't running toward the fight.
46:24
Sometimes courage is walking toward the person you've hurt
46:27
and saying, I was wrong. Will you please forgive me?
46:31
That is, that is pretty powerful.
46:32
Listen, if you are mean to reach out to somebody and ask them for
46:40
forgiveness, do it. It's hard.
46:45
It is so hard to ask for forgiveness.
46:48
It really is. I'm asking you for forgiveness.
46:53
I'm not going to say your name, but I'm pretty sure you're
46:56
watching my show. And for our conversation that we
47:00
had, it's long overdue. You're right, I should have.
47:04
I should have asked for forgiveness or I should have
47:06
said sorry many years ago and what I did or didn't do is
47:12
irrelevant. But I think that when you hurt
47:15
somebody and they're generally a good person, you owe them
47:23
apology. Sometimes being the bigger
47:26
person is asking for forgiveness.
47:29
It really is. I'm going to play this for you
47:31
guys real quick. When we come back, I'll I'll
47:33
talk a little bit more and then we'll we'll let you guys chat it
47:37
up a little bit because I got people writing me emails.
47:39
So I want to add this to you guys, share this with you guys
47:43
and I want you guys to tell me what you think.
47:55
I know you're hurt, I know it's my fault, but I've kept, I'm
48:01
sorry, locked in a vault. I know the time this keeps going
48:07
on and words by themselves can't right all the wrongs and a world
48:13
that's gone crazy. You don't know what's true.
48:17
Most people don't change, but some.
48:21
People Some people say sorry to hear
48:57
it's OK, but I know it's not. So you don't have to say that
49:04
you understand 'cause I know you don't.
49:08
Neither do I. I don't mean that I won't try
49:12
every day to show you the truth. Most people don't change, but
49:20
some people do. Some
49:33
grow up, but it's never a good time on it.
49:38
Most wouldn't forgive what I put you through, but I'm here
49:43
tonight hoping some people do. So whether you kiss me or you
49:57
close the door, know that I'm better than I was before.
51:49
You know, that's a powerful, powerful song.
51:57
It really is. It was playing in the background
51:59
when I was muted just now. So I apologize.
52:01
But some people, some people do Old Dominion, some people do.
52:06
So I appreciate them allowing us to play their song.
52:11
Powerful lesson that you know, on the eve of September 11th, it
52:16
was a powerful day for our nation and our world.
52:19
And it was a time when we reached out to others and asked
52:22
for forgiveness and said OK, do you do you forgive me Or moving
52:28
forward not asking so much do you forgive me?
52:30
But actually just asking for that forgiveness because it was
52:35
so powerful to us, not knowing that tomorrow we could be gone
52:39
and that that person may live their life for the rest of their
52:42
life, however long that is, not knowing whether you truly felt
52:45
sorry or remorseful or loved them or didn't love them or
52:51
whatever be it. So it's it's something that's
52:53
powerful. It's yeah.
52:59
September 11th, 25 years ago. I still cannot fathom that.
53:04
That was a long time ago, 25 years ago, 25 years ago.
53:15
Anyway, real quick, I'm not going to beat the dead horse,
53:20
but somebody asked a question in the chat about the Major Richard
53:23
Starr Act. It is not dead.
53:25
They have till December. It's still part of the Taking
53:28
Care of Veterans Act. Will it be passed this year?
53:32
You know, it's it's up in the air.
53:35
There's next year. Would have to go back through
53:37
the whole process again next year.
53:39
And you know, the way things are going right now, you know, we,
53:42
we still have an uncertainty. Hey, look, I don't know where
53:45
you're at in the world today or in the country.
53:47
Gas in Korea, I think it was Japan.
53:49
In Japan it was like $8 a gallon or some craziness like that.
53:53
We're almost at $4.00 a gallon here bag at home.
53:56
So yeah, it's, it's getting a little Craig out there with gas
54:00
and stuff like that. If it continues, man, I'm going
54:02
to be, I'm be pushing a Dang skateboard.
54:04
I'm going to learn how to ride a skateboard.
54:06
Somebody else just asked me that.
54:09
So would you ride a skateboard? Yes, I would write.
54:11
I would definitely ride a skateboard.
54:13
So listen again, 218 signs so far.
54:24
Elaborate a little bit more on that. 218 signs so far.
54:28
So somebody wrote 218 signs so far.
54:32
No, no, no idea what that is, but I I wanted to reiterate that
54:38
we are a not-for-profit 5O1C3. I always say that backwards for
54:43
some reason and that we take donations for veterans to teach
54:49
them how to do not just podcast but radio, TV, television as you
54:54
both know that are out here watching me.
54:57
All 2 of you guys, I'm joking, There's more than two people
55:00
watching. If you're out here watching us,
55:02
you know that we are on Roku television live and we are also
55:06
on almost every platform known to mankind.
55:09
I mean, if there's a new one comes up, we'll probably be on
55:11
that platform too. But military broadcast radio is
55:14
for the veterans supporting veterans, and we're here for
55:17
veterans, not for us. Every show on military broadcast
55:21
radio is different and it's and unique in its own way.
55:24
Everything from tracer rounds to into the weeds into there's so
55:31
many just to to name here. One day I'm going to have a list
55:33
and I'm just going to go through the whole entire freaking list
55:37
and make sure that I read everybody.
55:40
So that'll that'll be fun. That'll be fun.
55:45
I am hoping to be on the road and be in a foreign country next
55:52
week to bring you a video. I, I say foreign country.
55:55
It's really not a foreign country, but it is to most
55:57
people. And I'm going to be videoing and
56:01
doing a actual. Oh, so they have 217.
56:09
Oh, that's what he's saying. So somebody said they have, oh,
56:11
that's actually H train. H Train said they have 217.
56:14
They only need one more signature for it to go to the
56:16
House to be voted on and that's for the for the major Richard
56:20
star act of taking care of veterans to to go through.
56:22
So I will be going out and interviewing some very, very,
56:29
very, very famous Youtubers and they are currently doing AI
56:37
can't give it away. They're doing an event right now
56:39
and I've reached out to him on Instagram.
56:41
They agreed to try and meet up with me.
56:45
I'm going to try to meet up with him while I'm there, interview
56:48
them for next week. It is going to be phenomenal.
56:51
It is going to be good. I promise you.
56:52
We're going to have a great time.
56:54
And it's basically, what does it mean to be an American?
56:57
What does it mean to be an American?
57:01
Whether you were born in this country or became nationalized,
57:04
What does it mean to you coming from wherever you're at?
57:07
And I think that's really important because as a veteran,
57:09
a lot of the veterans are losing touch, especially today, the
57:12
young veterans are losing touch of what their mission is and
57:14
what they're protecting and what they're doing, right?
57:16
A lot of the kids today are, you know, we're 100% volunteer Army
57:20
military, right? So a lot of them are going into
57:22
the military for their college money or, or just to get some
57:25
kind of an experience or maybe a license that they need.
57:29
And that's cool. That's very admirable.
57:31
But really, what is it about right when the when the bullets
57:34
start flying, when the dust starts getting kicked up and you
57:38
know you're somewhere where you don't want to be?
57:41
What does it mean to be AUS military member at that time?
57:44
And what does it freedom mean to you?
57:47
So I yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited, really excited.
57:52
So I've been trying to get an interview with them forever.
57:54
So if you're out there again and you would like to e-mail me or
57:59
chat with us, my e-mail is Magic Mike at MB Radio dot US.
58:03
That's Magic Mike at MB Radio dot US.
58:06
You can turn into our live show every Thursday at 4:00 at almost
58:12
at 16104 PM Eastern Standard Time.
58:15
You can look us up on the web www.mbradio.us.
58:20
We have so many shows again out there.
58:22
If you ever want to call into the show, right?
58:24
Our phone number here is 720-619-0627.
58:27
If you ever want to call live on the show.
58:29
Hey, you can call live on the show.
58:30
Doesn't mean we're going to answer half the time.
58:33
We got the answer machine on. I'm joking.
58:35
Calling live your show. We'll have a good time.
58:37
Listen, we're almost at the end of my show.
58:39
We have a show following right away, so I have to keep the
58:41
schedule. I know this has been kind of a a
58:44
whole humbug, mundane type of thing, but I didn't want it to
58:48
be. I want you guys to always,
58:50
always, always, always have an opportunity to interact with me,
58:57
interact with the shows that were out there.
58:58
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59:03
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59:39
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59:42
I think that's pretty hilarious. But anyways, 25th anniversary
59:46
tomorrow, I don't know how you are going to be acknowledging
59:50
that, but I hope that you think about the 2997 souls that were
59:56
lost on that day and all those who defended our nation.
59:59
Thank you as always, for tuning into my show, for joining me,
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